Heyshott, Sussex

Historical Description

Heyshott, a parish in Sussex, near the river Rother, and 2 miles from Cocking station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Midhurst. Acreage, 2184; population, 393. The manor belonged to William de Percy, Earl of Montgomery, descended to the Earls of Northumberland, passed in the time of Henry VIII. to Sir William Fitzwilliam, and in 1761 to the Earl of Egremont. Part of the surface is downs, and there are vestiges of a Roman camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £230 with residence. The church is Decorated and Later English, and has been restored. There is a small village club.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Heyshott from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Heyshot)

Maps

Online maps of Heyshott are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer